Júri 2022

Janis Jefferies is a writer, curator and artists, emeritus professor of visual art. For 30 years she worked at Goldsmiths, University of London leading textile, art, computing and research programmes. She has published and exhibited internationally since 1980, most recently in 2019. The Enchantment of Cloth (with Prof Barbara Layne), the Central de Diseo, Madrid (August) and 5th International Art and Science Exhibition and Symposium, Tsinghua University and National Museum of China, Beijing. Recent publications include 2020. Jefferies & Weinberg. ‘Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas.’ in A Companion to Textile Culture, ed. Jennifer Harris. Wiley Publishers, 2019 ‘Textile Modernism: Transcultural readings of Maryn Varbanov and abstract weaving from East to East, from Local to Global’ in ed. Prof. Dr. Bu Dogramaci (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München).Textile Modernism for Bohlau Verlag’s, German and English and 2019 ‘Polish Ghosts’ in Abakanowicz: Metamorfizm/Metamorphism, ed. Marta Koweskla, Centralne Muzeum Włokiennictwa w Łodzi and many reviews for Textile: Journal of Cloth & Culture, Textile History, Textile Research and Surface Design USA, In 2019, Jefferies curated Breaching Borders, the National exhibition of Polish Tapestry, City Art Gallery, part of the 16thInternational Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland and was the first international curator, Fibre Art Triennial, Hangzhou, China, 2013. She is Co-Chief Editor of the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of World Textiles with Dr Vivienne Richmond (due December 2023).